Hello. This is Gerry Chevalier from the GTT Edmonton Chapter. This weekly blog provides tips that I find useful as a keyboard user of Windows. The information is for Windows10 and Office 365, although many tips still apply to older versions.  The tips do not require a screen reader unless specifically noted. Thus, the tips apply whether you are a keyboard user or low vision mouse user. Here is this week’s tip.

Microsoft Word – Shortcut for Creating a Bulleted or Numbered List

You may quickly create a bulleted list of items in your document as follows.

• Press the asterisk (*) key plus a space at the start of your first item. Type the item text and press Enter.
• The asterisk will be changed to a bullet and the next line will also start with a bullet so you can type the second item.
• Continue typing the remaining items of your list and press Enter twice on the last item to turn off the auto-bullet marking.
• You can also bullet text that is already typed by selecting the line or lines of text and pressing Control+Shift+L.

Similarly, you can type a numbered list.

1. Press “1.” Without the quotes Followed by a space and the text of your first item and then press Enter.
2. The next line will begin with “2.”. Continue typing the items in your list and press Enter after each item. Each new line will be numbered incrementally.
3. Press Enter twice on the last item to turn off the auto numbering.

If you later delete one of the numbered items, or insert a new item, the remaining items are automatically renumbered.

That’s it for this tip. Until next Wednesday, happy computing.